Basket



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George W. -Td/lmoi,

, Attorney.

Patented Aug. 17, 1926.

GEORGE W. TALBOT, 0F BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA.

BASKET.

Application filed May 22, 1925. Serial No. 32,219.

My invention relates to stave baskets and containers such as are used in storing, transporting, and displaying vegetables, fruits and the like, as potatoes, peaches, and berries.

Such baskets re uire the bending and forming of the individual staves to effect the size and shape desired in the finished basket. Heretofore, when a sharp corner was desired, the stave Was scored and then bent outwardly from the score. Later, the now common V-score was introduced and the stave then was bent inwardly about the score. In either case, the stave was materially weakened by the score cutting through much of the stave, and consequently, such scored staves were necessarily limited to small sized baskets and containers, and a gallon container was the largest that would stand up for any practical period of usage.

My invention eliminates the weakening et fect of such scoring and permits the easy and quick formation of large containers, such as the commonly known bushel basket, that will not crush down as the heretofore bushel basket has done. My invention eliminates the lower round cornered bend of the staves in such a basket and permits the weight to be taken directly upon the ends of the staves, and yet one piece staves are used to form the side walls and bottom.

I accomplish these and such other objects as will be apparent in the followingr description by the means as 'illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a basket; Fig. 2 a vertical section taken on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a top plan view looking down into the basket; Fig. 4, a top plan view of a single stave, with fragments of the ends removed; Fig. 5, a side elevation of the individual stave, reduced in length; and Fig. 6, an individual stave bent from the straight stave as shown in Fig. 5 to the 'form as used in the basket shown in Figs.

1, 2, and 3.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several Views.

I form the individual stave 10 of suitable width and of such length that it will extend from the top of the basket to be built down the side across the bottom and up the opposite side to the top. Measured from each end of the stave 10 the distance equal to the height of the side of the basket, is a depression l1 on the top or inner side of the stave 10, such that the stave 10 is not cut through or weakened at this point but has a projecting rib 12 directly under the score 11 whereby the original thickness of the stave 10 is maintained. l

The stave 10, Fig. 5 is be'nt upwardly and inwardly about the score 11 from each end as indicated by the dash lines to the shape as shown in Fig. 6. The central portion between the scores 11 is bowed upwardly.

The basket is then Vbuilt up from the staves 10 by alternately overlapping one stave 10, on the other about the central ree taining rivet 13, and the outer ends of the staves are received and secured between the inner top band lit-and the outer top band 15 in the usual and well known manner by clinched rivets or nails or by a stitching machine. A mid-band 16 is placed about the outer sides of the staves to draw in the staves so as to hold the staves in an outwardly inclined position to permit nesting of the finished baskets.

It, will be noted in referring to Figs. 1, and 2, that the weight of the basket is taken directly upon the sharp corner of each stave on the ribs 12 such that there is no tendency to buckle downwardly under the load of the contents. Further, it is to be noted that the bottom of the basket is curved upwardly to the center thereby effecting a cushion for the contents as well as permitting `ventilation, both secured without sacrificing the rigidity of the supporting side wall.

While I have here shown and described a basket designed for use in large sizes such as a bushel basket, the same stave may be employed to form rectangular berry boxes by using a wider and shorter stave, two to the box. Similarly, other shapes and sizes of staves may be employed to build up containers of any desired capacity and configuration, all utilizing the stave so described as being adapted to be benty about a score that has not reduced the stave in thickness nor otherwise weakened the stave at the line of bending.

I claim:

1. A basket stave having a bending line comprising a rib formed on the back of they stave and a groove cut in the opposite face over said rib.

2. A basket adapted to be nested, formed of a plurality of staves, said staves being radially positioned and secured one to the other at a center point in each of the staves; having grooves equidistant from said center point in each oi the stev; a reendorcing' band engaging die ends of the sceves, said rib behind said gTooves, said staves being top band being sigbtly longer than the eX- airched upwardly between said grooves to tended line formed by the grooves in be 110 form a convex bottom of Jche basket; each of Steves. v

said Steves being bent sharply at the grooves In 'testimony whereof affix my signato extend both ends'of `the stave upwardly ture. A

to form the sides of the basket; and a, top GEORGE W. TALBOT. 

